Nostalgic NBA Rookie Rosters

What if NBA teams were locked into the players they drafted? No free agency, no trades. What if, you looked at all of the current NBA rosters and re-shuffled to create nostalgic rosters composed of only team’s draft picks.

MikeDropSports, has the answer! Below is a compilation of all the 30 NBA rosters consisting of only teams’ draft picks and including active players only.

Two things to note:

Players are included on their rookie team rosters (not necessarily team who drafted them if trade was made on draft night or shortly after)

Undrafted players are part of roster that they played first game with

Scroll to the bottom to see the projected playoff teams and NBA champion in each conference.

Most likely NBA Finals – OKC Thunder, led by the last three MVPs (Durant, Westbrook, Harden) vs 76ers, who in addition to Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid bring back Jrue Holiday, Andre Iguodala and Thaddeus Young

Which rosters intrigue you the most – for better or worse? What would be your top 8?